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Koren Paalman teaches at an inner city high school in Los Angeles for PE credit. She's been doing it over 10 years! These students love the break from their stress.

Megan Sappington's teen class in Jefferson City, Missourri meets weekly and has intensive practice weekends, too. Megan says her teens exhibit gratitude, strength, flexibility, and empathy as they embrace yoga.

Maggie Crosse teaches "tween-age" students at St Joseph's Girls School in Tipperary Town, Ireland. Sometimes, they enjoy making up their own poses. The girls say because of yoga they are now friendlier, sleep better, and can conentrate more easily.

Students at University School Nashville take yoga as an elective for semester credit. Fourteen –year-old Jessica Fraley, pictured in Namaste hands with Christy, says she’s often tired and lazy before yoga but feels better afterwards.

Louisville, KY based yoga teacher Matt Harris, 19, assists yogi Andrew Lazarus, 18, in deepening his poses at the Teen Yoga Workshop at 12South Yoga in Nashville, TN. Andrew has been practicing yoga for 4 years. He likes to practice and go to class with his Mom.

14 year old Chelsea Gifford’s mom and grandmother have been lifelong yoga teachers. She doesn’t like to practice because she says it makes her feel inflexible. She says Yoga teacher Matt Harris made yoga fun.

13 year old yogi Lyle Reed learned how to do backbends in the Yoga for Teens workshop at 12South Yoga. After doing a backbend, he proclaimed in class, "I think I just had an out of body experience."

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Omega for Teens campers do yoga with Christy in outdoor palapa classroom. Yoga first-timers were amazed how their bodies changed after they kept flowing through the poses. "I don't know what happened but now I can do a backbend on my own," said Carstin.

Jennifer Lightsey teaches yoga at University School Nashville. Can you tell she's pregnant?

Doing restorative yoga, poses where your body is propped up with blankets and bolsters, let’s you relax and find a place for your mind to be quiet. Some students at University School in Nashville always want to do restorative poses and one young woman thinks it is so hard to stay still.